bluetooth and pin_helper

[rickygm]

hello forum, I am trying to connect my cellular phone sony ericsson w880i with my centos 5, I have installed the packages

bluez-utils-3.7-2.el5.centos
bluez-libs-3.7-1
bluez-hcidump-1.32-1

when I restart the bluetooth he tells me that it doesn't recognize the password

Unknown option 'pin_helper' line 5
Jan 23 22:11:23 xserver hcid[22723]: syntax error line 5
Jan 23 22:11:23 xserver hcid[22723]: Register path:/org/bluez fallback:1

I have trying with passkey and pin_helper but it doesn't work me

[topdog]

Post your configuration, as you can see from the logs you have a syntax error on line 5 of one of your configuration files am guessing /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf

[rickygm]

options {
autoinit yes;
security auto;
pairing multi;
pin_helper /usr/bin/bluepin;
}

device {
name "MY PHONEC";
class 0x000100;
iscan enable; pscan enable;
lm accept;
lp rswitch,hold,sniff,park;
}

[topdog]

the "pin_helper" option is only valid with bluez-libs-2.x & bluez-utils-2.x and below.

Thats what is causing the service to fail to start up.

Bluez-3.X has replaced pin helpers with passkey agents such as kbluetoothd and bluez-gnome, the bluez-utils also comes with an command line agent passkey-agent.

[rickygm]

but that command passkey-agent doesn't have it installed, and my version of is

bluez-gnome-0.5-5.fc6

?

with the option of the passkey inside the hcid.conf, the cellular one requests me the PASSWORD every 5 seconds and it doesn't connect with my PC

as I can solve that?

[topdog]

First you need to remove that option from your hcid.conf file then restart bluetooth, if you leave the option in bluetooth will not run.

I have not used bluez-gnome as i use kbluetoothd, but it is supposed to popup a dialog for you to type the pin in.